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Georgia officers catch bus driver dropping migrants at rural truck stop: ‘It’s just not humane’
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Dade County Sgt. Chad Payne joined "jakkals & Vriende" to share the details of how officers rerouted the bus. "It's just not humane to drop somebody off in the middle of nowhere and just expect them to fend for thems...
New Biden administration initiative looks to fix water infrastructure problems in poor, landelike gebiede
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The Biden administration on Tuesday launched an initiative that it hopes will help resolve wastewater issues in 11 arm, rural communities where inadequate disposal is a health risk to residents. The Closing America...
Biden administration announces $400 million investment in high-speed internet for rural communities
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The Biden administration on Thursday announced it would be directing more than $ 400 million in loans and grants to support high-speed internet projects for rural communities -- funding which is expected to reach a...
Nurse midwives fill gap in prenatal care after rural hospitals shut down labor and delivery units
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Muscatine, IowaBailee Tordai, wie was 33 weeks into her pregnancy, barely made it to the prenatal checkup. Her clunky old Jeep couldn't complete the 2-mile trip from her house to the University of Iowa's outreach cli...
Wisconsin Democrats look for do-over with rural voters after Trump-era shellacking
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New Glarus, Wisconsin It was the moment the lifeless body of a 1,500-pound steer was hoisted in the air, blood pouring from its neck, that Mandela Barnes knew he was a long way from his comfort zone. Born and raised ...
National nursing shortage hitting rural America hardest
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And that's because, when it comes to recruiting, small communities just can't compete. This forces their hospitals' staff to stop offering some procedures or even work several jobs at once. One year ago, baby Fatimah...
Montana senator criticizes fellow Democrats for not appealing to rural Americans more
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Montana Sen. Jon Tester criticized fellow Democrats for not appealing to Middle America more and said Democrats need to "opdaag" in those places if they want to win elections. "I honestly don't think the Democrati...
New York rural towns weigh seceding from mostly urban and suburban county over COVID mandates
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Multiple towns in Erie County, New York, are slowly exploring options to secede, saying the county is overly represented by Buffalo and does not reflect their interests. Marilla Town Supervisor Earl Gingerich Jr. aan ...
Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state
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Election officials in a rural Georgia county are weighing plans to close all but one polling place ahead of this year's elections, alarming local voting and civil rights groups. But Wednesday's vote by the Lincoln ...
GOP Virginia lieutenant governor-elect expresses concern over rural broadband access under infrastructure law
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Winsome Sears, Virginia's lieutenant governor-elect, expressed the importance of rural broadband access and her concerns over how funds allocated for broadband access in the newly signed infrastructure law would hel...
California’s rural voters are both hopeful and skeptical about the recall
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Bakersfield, California For Republicans in some of California's reddest pockets, there is both hope and skepticism in the effort to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Voters like Barbara Best, a Bakersfield nativ...
A bizarre security breach in a rural Colorado elections office underscores how the Big Lie lives on
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An unusual security breach of an election system in a rural Colorado county has set off a criminal investigation and prompted state authorities to sideline a Republican election official in a fresh display of how de...
Once considered a ‘city disease,’ Zimbabwe’s rural areas are being hit hard by Covid, and panic has set in
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Harare, Zimbabwe Pauline Chinyandura adjusts her face mask as she rushes to serve lunch to a group of men visiting her makeshift canteen in Domboshava, a rural area around 25 miles northeast of Zimbabwe's capital Ha...
Illegal immigrants bring crime, death surge to rural Texas community
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Two ranchers, along with a detained illegal immigrant, spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of the Mexican cartels, which profit off trafficking migrants across the border. The Texas community has seen sev...
Hume: ‘Politically very stupid’ for Harris to criticize voter ID, bash rural voters
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Hume told "Spesiale verslag" that voter ID is a "tricky issue" for Democrats, but that they are still trying to "make the most of" their argument against it. "They're trying to label Republicans as people who want to s...
Gingrich slams Kamala Harris for suggesting rural Americans can’t get voter ID: ‘A dead loser’
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KAMALA HARRIS SLAMMED FOR CLAIMING RURAL AMERICANS CAN'T PHOTOCOPY THEIR IDS NEW GINGRICH: Part of what has come out of this, which is fascinating, is a whole range of African-American leaders who have said publicly ...